[conspire] Federales in Portland?

[Ruben Safir]

did you ever see this?
http://www.brooklyn-living.com/fishing.html

On 7/23/20 7:45 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben at mrbrklyn.com):
> 
>> Except for one thing.  Have you ever tried to take a Caravel into the
>> deep ocean with just sales, and no map?
>>
>> These guys had balls.
> 
> Granted.  And, _if_ there had been little or nothing 
> between his point of departure and China, and if he truly knew the
> approximate real size of Earth, that would only make it even more gutsy.
> 
> As it was, they had a six-week voyage across the Atlantic after leaving
> the Canary Islands -- until they finally reached some island in the
> Bahamas or Turks & Caicos chains.  Before they pulled off that feat,
> nothing west of the Azores and Madeira had been known to Europeans
> (other than by the Vikings, of course).  Well, technically, there 
> _is_ convincing evidence Portuguese navigators had already established
> that there were lands over here, and Columbus may have known:
> https://www.americanheritage.com/was-america-discovered-columbus
> 
> Also, as the article points out, there were somewhat vague but
> compelling claims left over from the ancient Phoenicians that they had
> visited vast lands far beyond the Pillars of Hercules.
> 
> But even so:  gutsy.  Sometimes, gold fever helps for that.  (For
> Columbus, it really was all about the gold he expected to come home
> with.)
> 
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